Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed monument to prejudice. Before the State House of Representatives was a bill to abolish the law which forbids discussion of evolution in the public schools. Cried the bill's sponsor: "I'm getting tired of having people refer to Tennessee as the State with the monkey statute." Exclaimed another friend of evolution: "This law has done more to indict the intelligence of Tennessee than any bill ever passed." But the majority of Tennessee legislators were neither tired nor ashamed. They voted down the anti-evolution repealer...
After his conviction for violating Tennessee's "monkey law" and his $100 fine, young Scopes went to the University of Chicago on funds raised for him by sympathetic scientists. He specialized in biology and geology. He joined the Venezuela Gulf Oil Co., went deep into remote South American Oil fields, married a fellow employee last year. After a serious tropical illness he returned to Chicago to study for a Ph.D. William Jennings Bryan sleeps on a Virginia hillside overlooking the Potomac while Dayton has long since relapsed to sultry stagnation...
...moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek. These pictures showed bathing beauties riding under water on pickerel, an old-time chorus girl on a high-wheel bicycle dropping from a blimp by parachute; a monkey-headed robin perched beside a nestful of dice...
...months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director...
...Monkey Wife Author John Collier has written a more forthright satire than did David Garnett in Lady Into Fox, but the tone of the two books is similar. You may be shocked by some of Author Collier's implications; never by what he says. Nothing is here for tears; plenty for a smile...